Resident Advisor's Scores

  • Music
For 1,106 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Biokinetics [Reissue]
Lowest review score: 36 Déjà-Vu
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 1 out of 1106
1106 music reviews
    • 75 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Folding Time sounds so manicured and lovely that it's hard to find fault with its production value. If the album has a problem, it's that it makes a lateral move rather than a forward one.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    Recorded in one take, fabric 87 captures the peak-time spirit of fabric's Room 2, and showcases exclusive edits from the DJ and remixes of currently boxfresh tracks like "Lolly Pop" by Reset Robot. So it's a shame that the mix runs out of energy before the end, pulling the knockout blow it should have had.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Most of The Triad lacks darkness or tension, which results in a lack of depth and contrast.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Where his best music was like reading pages from a diary, Rojus can feel like a passionate retelling of memories that were never his.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Under The Sun isn't the major departure that it seems on the surface, but rather a pleasant detour through mythical, imagined landscapes.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For a debut album from such a young artist, 99.9% is remarkably self-assured. It sets up Celestin as someone carving out his niche.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Oh No is an inventive and enjoyable pop record that only falls short of Lanza's own standards.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Yoyogi Park is at its best on the tracks where Kersten wanders out of his comfort zone.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Konnichiwa isn't perfect, but it mostly accomplishes the goals Skepta set for himself, and is certainly one of the best grime has seen so far.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    The permanent ache in Blake's voice is one of his most arresting qualities, but it grows tiresome as The Colour In Anything wades through its 76 minutes.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Following shaky albums from both Yorke and Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool suggests that they were right to keep the faith.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    For a project of its size and vision, Vol. 1 is remarkably coherent. It's a testament to the label's endurance and vitality that they assembled so many top-notch exclusive tracks from friends both old and new.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On the self-produced Will, there's an extraordinary confidence behind Barwick's voice and arrangements.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Ship, his sixth Warp record in seven years, entwines various threads from these albums [Small Craft On A Milk Sea, Lux, and Highlife] into a heady amalgam that stands as his best work for the label to date.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    This LP has the duo's best music; each track offers something to marvel at. But put them all together and it's like watching the world end 11 times in a row: what at first seems fearsome eventually turns mundane.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    I AKA I moves from peak to peak, and you're never more than a couple of tracks away from open-mouthed awe.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Honey lacks the coherence of her previous albums, but as a love letter to the rave it's eloquent and sincere.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    With a relatively small number of building blocks, Acre has built an album that feels varied, showcases a range of emotion and, most importantly, feels whole.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The album is overproduced and polished to a fault, often vague and uninteresting. It's the defining characteristic of Become Alive. The individual performances are undeniably full of flavor and complexity, but put together they can overwhelm.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 66 Critic Score
    For all of its differences, Utility only sounds unnatural in the Kowton discography when it undermines the strengths of the music before it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    As the realised aspirations of Myson's inner-teen, Hollowed is startlingly articulate and mature.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Stott's latest marks a new stage on this journey into the pop unknown, but it feels like he's not quite there yet.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Petrol finds the artist coming into his own, interpreting his life experience into sublime electro-acoustic music.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    These short tracks hint at the more compact and engaging album #N/A could've been. But on "#2," the collaborators show they can also pull off long-form.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    On EARS, Smith emerges as a novel, naturalistic and, yes, pop-savvy voice wielding an instrument known for esoteric experimentalism.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Potential is largely a wonderful collection of uplifting and humbling electronic pop.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Trendy as Silver's interests may have become, On Vacation feels no less personal and awe-inspiring in its stillness.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Where McRyhew's first full-length approached footwork with playful individualism, this record favours freeform acid and techno structures.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    The Last Panthers goes further, illustrating a picture of its own.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    III
    Unrestrained emotion is ultimately III's defining attribute, and that richness can be too much to bear.